Category: Art

4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
New reading relates the history of mirrors, patchwork and a monumental teahouse, plus the struggle to make design more just.
When Pretty Walls Tell a Deeper Story

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
How contemporary designers are using patterns and historical motifs to reframe — and reclaim — cultural narratives in homes décor.
There’s No Muse Like Home

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Two product designers discuss their own private diasporas.
Putting Black Design in a Spotlight

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
How tastemakers in three world capitals are driving appreciation for Black creators and collectibles.
Rafael Viñoly, From the Drawing Board to the Keyboard

The New York Times – Music:
There is something transcendent about the architect’s spaces: something unseeable that you experience when you enter. They are as fluid as music.
An Architect Applies Her Skills to Giving Back

The New York Times – Business:
Diana Kellogg specialized in high-end New York residences. Now, she has designed a girls school in India and is pursuing other projects that address social change.
Taking a Baking Class at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Wisconsin

The New York Times – Travel:
The writer gets a room of her own at the architect’s former home in the Wisconsin hills. A weekend workshop offers ample time to explore the grounds.
Dasha Zhukova’s Post-Oligarch Life

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The oligarch’s ex-wife had carefully built a place for herself in the art world. And then, Putin’s war started.
Pieces of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s Life Together Head to Auction

The New York Times – Movies:
More than 300 items that belonged to Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward will be sold in June in a series of auctions run by Sotheby’s in New York.
How Great Art Gets Lost — and Found Again

The New York Times – T Magazine:
The rediscovery of forgotten works always comes with the realization that they have been with us all along.
‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also drug lords).
Craig Green’s Inspirations: Paper Dolls and Art From a London Gay Bar

The New York Times – T Magazine:
The British men’s wear designer with a utilitarian style pulls back the curtain on his creative process.